Terrorism And Literature PDF, Epub Download

Terrorism And Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Terrorism And Literature book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.

Terrorism and Literature

Peter C. Herman

Author : Peter C. Herman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1052 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108699303

Get Book

Terrorism and Literature by Peter C. Herman Pdf

Terrorism has long been a major shaping force in the world. However, the meanings of terrorism, as a word and as a set of actions, are intensely contested. This volume explores how literature has dealt with terrorism from the Renaissance to today, inviting the reader to make connections between older instances of terrorism and contemporary ones, and to see how the various literary treatments of terrorism draw on each other. The essays demonstrate that the debates around terrorism only give the fictive imagination more room, and that fiction has a great deal to offer in terms of both understanding terrorism and our responses to it. Written by historians and literary critics, the essays provide essential knowledge to understand terrorism in its full complexity. As befitting a global problem, this book brings together a truly international group of scholars, with representatives from America, Scotland, Canada, New Zealand, Italy, Israel, and other countries.

Literature and Terrorism

Anonim

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401207737

Get Book

Literature and Terrorism by Anonim Pdf

The years following the attacks of September 11, 2001 have seen the publication of a wide range of scientific analyses of terrorism. Literary studies seem to lag curiously behind this general shift of academic interest. The present volume sets out to fill this gap. It does so in the conviction that the study of literature has much to offer to the transdisciplinary investigation of terror, not only with respect to the present post-9/11 situation but also with respect to earlier historical contexts. Literary texts are media of cultural self-reflection, and as such they have always played a crucial role in the discursive response to terror, both contributing to and resisting dominant conceptions of the causes, motivations, dynamics, and aftermath of terrorist violence. By bringing together experts from various fields and by combining case studies of works from diverse periods and national literatures, the volume Literature and Terrorism chooses a diachronic and comparative perspective. It is interested in the specific cultural work performed by narrative and dramatic literature in the face of terrorism, focusing on literature's ambivalent relationship to other, competing modes of discourse.

Terrorism and Literature

Peter C. Herman

Author : Peter C. Herman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Terrorism
ISBN : 110844671X

Get Book

Terrorism and Literature by Peter C. Herman Pdf

Terrorism has long been a major shaping force in the world. However, the meanings of terrorism, as a word and as a set of actions, are intensely contested. This volume explores how literature has dealt with terrorism from the Renaissance to today, inviting the reader to make connections between older instances of terrorism and contemporary ones, and to see how the various literary treatments of terrorism draw on each other. The essays demonstrate that the debates around terrorism only give the fictive imagination more room, and that fiction has a great deal to offer in terms of both understanding terrorism and our responses to it. Written by historians and literary critics, the essays provide essential knowledge to understand terrorism in its full complexity. As befitting a global problem, this book brings together a truly international group of scholars, with representatives from America, Scotland, Canada, New Zealand, Italy, Israel, and other countries.

Terrorism in Literature

Bootheina Majoul

Author : Bootheina Majoul
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527538450

Get Book

Terrorism in Literature by Bootheina Majoul Pdf

This volume celebrates literature as a strong subversive tool, as an alternative for change, through an exploration of terrorism in various literary works. It brings together scholars from all over the world, including Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Cameroon, Denmark, India, Italy, Tunisia, Turkey, and the USA, to offer their insights. As readers themselves, they share an eagerness to understand the psychopathological personalities circulating among us. They urge the reader to dig deep into literature, to think, to cogitate and to learn. One of the most important literary figures dealing with terrorism in his novels is the internationally acclaimed Indian writer Tabish Khair, who generously wrote the foreword to this volume. He sheds light on the possibilities offered by literature as a means of dissent and a powerful tool for truth telling.

Written in Blood

Lynn Ellen Patyk

Author : Lynn Ellen Patyk
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299312206

Get Book

Written in Blood by Lynn Ellen Patyk Pdf

A fundamentally new interpretation of the emergence of modern terrorism, arguing that it formed in the Russian literary imagination well before any shot was fired or bomb exploded.

Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism

Institute of Medicine,Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health,Committee on Responding to the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health,Committee on Responding to the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309167925

Get Book

Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism by Institute of Medicine,Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health,Committee on Responding to the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism Pdf

The Oklahoma City bombing, intentional crashing of airliners on September 11, 2001, and anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001 have made Americans acutely aware of the impacts of terrorism. These events and continued threats of terrorism have raised questions about the impact on the psychological health of the nation and how well the public health infrastructure is able to meet the psychological needs that will likely result. Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism highlights some of the critical issues in responding to the psychological needs that result from terrorism and provides possible options for intervention. The committee offers an example for a public health strategy that may serve as a base from which plans to prevent and respond to the psychological consequences of a variety of terrorism events can be formulated. The report includes recommendations for the training and education of service providers, ensuring appropriate guidelines for the protection of service providers, and developing public health surveillance for preevent, event, and postevent factors related to psychological consequences.

Unspeakable

Peter C. Herman

Author : Peter C. Herman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000008524

Get Book

Unspeakable by Peter C. Herman Pdf

Unspeakable: Literature and Terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot to 9/11 explores the representation of terrorism in plays, novels, and films across the centuries. Time and time again, writers and filmmakers including William Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Gillo Pontecorvo, Don DeLillo, John Updike, and Steven Spielberg refer to terrorist acts as beyond comprehension, “a deed without a name,” but they do not stop there. Instead of creating works that respond to terrorism by providing comforting narratives reassuring audiences and readers of their moral superiority and the perfidy of the terrorists, these writers and filmmakers confront the unspeakable by attempting to see the world from the terrorist’s perspective and by examining the roots of terrorist violence.

The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism in Public Discourse, Literature, and Film

Michael C. Frank

Author : Michael C. Frank
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134837366

Get Book

The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism in Public Discourse, Literature, and Film by Michael C. Frank Pdf

This study investigates the overlaps between political discourse and literary and cinematic fiction, arguing that both are informed by, and contribute to, the cultural imaginary of terrorism. Whenever mass-mediated acts of terrorism occur, they tend to trigger a proliferation of threat scenarios not only in the realm of literature and film but also in the statements of policymakers, security experts, and journalists. In the process, the discursive boundary between the factual and the speculative can become difficult to discern. To elucidate this phenomenon, this book proposes that terror is a halfway house between the real and the imaginary. For what characterizes terrorism is less the single act of violence than it is the fact that this act is perceived to be the beginning, or part, of a potential series, and that further acts are expected to occur. As turn-of-the-century writers such as Stevenson and Conrad were the first to point out, this gives terror a fantastical dimension, a fact reinforced by the clandestine nature of both terrorist and counter-terrorist operations. Supported by contextual readings of selected texts and films from The Dynamiter and The Secret Agent through late-Victorian science fiction to post-9/11 novels and cinema, this study explores the complex interplay between actual incidents of political violence, the surrounding discourse, and fictional engagement with the issue to show how terrorism becomes an object of fantasy. Drawing on research from a variety of disciplines, The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism will be a valuable resource for those with interests in the areas of Literature and Film, Terrorism Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Trauma Studies, and Cultural Studies.

America's Culture of Terrorism

Jeffory A. Clymer

Author : Jeffory A. Clymer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807861516

Get Book

America's Culture of Terrorism by Jeffory A. Clymer Pdf

Although the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 shocked the world, America has confronted terrorism at home for well over a century. With the invention of dynamite in 1866, Americans began to worry about anonymous acts of mass violence in a way that differed from previous generations' fears of urban riots, slave uprisings, and mob violence. Focusing on the volatile period between the 1886 Haymarket bombing and the 1920 bombing outside J. P. Morgan's Wall Street office, Jeffory Clymer argues that economic and cultural displacements caused by the expansion of industrial capitalism directly influenced evolving ideas about terrorism. In America's Culture of Terrorism, Clymer uncovers the roots of American terrorism and its impact on American identity by exploring the literary works of Henry James, Ida B. Wells, Jack London, Thomas Dixon, and Covington Hall, as well as trial transcripts, media reports, and the cultural rhetoric surrounding terrorist acts of the day. He demonstrates that the rise of mass media and the pressures of the industrial wage-labor economy both fueled the development of terrorism and shaped society's response to it. His analysis not only sheds new light on American literature and culture a century ago but also offers insights into the contemporary understanding of terrorism.

Literature after 9/11

Ann Keniston,Jeanne Follansbee Quinn

Author : Ann Keniston,Jeanne Follansbee Quinn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135024659

Get Book

Literature after 9/11 by Ann Keniston,Jeanne Follansbee Quinn Pdf

Drawing on trauma theory, genre theory, political theory, and theories of postmodernity, space, and temporality, Literature After 9/11 suggests ways that these often distinct discourses can be recombined and set into dialogue with one another as it explores 9/11’s effects on literature and literature’s attempts to convey 9/11.

The Psychology of Counter-Terrorism

Andrew Silke

Author : Andrew Silke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136890376

Get Book

The Psychology of Counter-Terrorism by Andrew Silke Pdf

This work firstly aims to provide balanced and objective insight into the psychology of terrorists; what their motivations are, what keeps them involved in terrorist groups, and what eventually forces most to end their active involvement in terrorism. Secondly, the contributors focus on the challenging issue of how to respond to terrorism. These chapters provide information for those concerned with short-term tactical problems (e.g. interviewing), as well as those looking towards the more long-term strategic questions of bringing an entire terrorist campaign to an end. Ultimately, the individuals involved in terrorism require a more complex response from society than simply a quest for their apprehension. Believing inaccurate and misleading characterizations leads inevitably to damaging policies and deficient outcomes, with campaigns of violence being needlessly prolonged. It is from this perspective that the concern arises with how researchers -and the policy makers guided by them - perceive the psychology of terrorists and of terrorism.

Terrorism and Modern Literature

Alex Houen

Author : Alex Houen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191541988

Get Book

Terrorism and Modern Literature by Alex Houen Pdf

Is terrorism's violence essentially symbolic? Does it impact on culture primarily through the media? What kinds of performative effect do the various discourses surrounding terrorism have? Such questions have not only become increasingly important in terrorism studies, they have also been concerns for many literary writers. This book is the first extensive study of modern literature's engagement with terrorism. Ranging from the 1880s to the 1980s, the terrorism examined is as diverse as the literary writings on it: chapters include discussions of Joseph Conrad's novels on Anarchism and Russian Nihilism; Wyndham Lewis's avant-garde responses to Syndicalism and the militant Suffragettes; Ezra Pound's poetic entanglement with Segregationist violence; Walter Abish's fictions about West German urban guerrillas; and Seamus Heaney's and Ciaran Carson's poems on the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland. In each instance, Alex Houen explores how the literary writer figures clashes or collusions between terrorist violence and discursive performativity. What is revealed is that writing on terrorism has frequently involved refiguring the force of literature itself. In terrorism studies the cultural impact of terrorism has often been accounted for with rigid, structural theories of its discursive roots. But what about the performative effects of violence on discourse? Addressing the issue of this mutual contagion, Terrorism and Modern Literature shows that the mediation and effects of terrorism have been historically variable. Referring to a variety of sources in addition to the literature—newspaper and journal articles, legislation, letters, manifestos—the book shows how terrorism and the literature on it have been embroiled in wider cultural fields. The result is not just a timely intervention in debates about terrorism's performativity. Drawing on literary/critical theory and philosophy, it is also a major contribution to debates about the historical and political dimensions of modernist and postmodernist literary practices.

Literature, Migration and the 'War on Terror'

Fiona Tolan,Stephen Morton,Anastasia Valassopoulos,Robert Spencer

Author : Fiona Tolan,Stephen Morton,Anastasia Valassopoulos,Robert Spencer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781317985013

Get Book

Literature, Migration and the 'War on Terror' by Fiona Tolan,Stephen Morton,Anastasia Valassopoulos,Robert Spencer Pdf

This is a major new collection of essays on literary and cultural representations of migration and terrorism, the cultural impact of 9/11, and the subsequent ‘war on terror’. The collection commences with analyses of the relationship between migration and terrorism, which has been the focus of much mainstream political and media debate since the attacks on America in 2001 and the London bombings in 2005, not least because liberal democratic governments in Europe and North America have invoked such attacks to justify the regulation of migration and the criminalisation of ‘minority’ groups. Responding to the consequent erosion of the liberal democratic rights of the individual, leading scholars assess the various ways in which literary texts support and/or interrogate the conflation of narratives of transnational migration and perceived terrorist threats to national security. This crucial debate is furthered by contrasting analyses of the manner in which novelists from the UK, North Africa, the US and Palestine have represented 9/11, exploring the event’s contexts and ramifications. This path-breaking study complicates the simplistic narratives of revenge and wronged innocence commonly used to make sense of the attacks and to justify the US response. Each novel discussed seeks to interrogate and analyse a discourse typically dominated by consent, belligerence and paranoia. Together, the collected essays suggest the value of literature as an effective critical intervention in the very fraught political aftermath of the ‘war on terror’. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

Political Terrorism

A.J. Jongman

Author : A.J. Jongman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351498616

Get Book

Political Terrorism by A.J. Jongman Pdf

While there is no easy way to define terrorism, it may generally be viewed as a method of violence in which civilians are targeted with the objective of forcing a perceived enemy into submission by creating fear, demoralization, and political friction in the population under attack. At one time a marginal field of study in the social sciences, terrorism is now very much in center stage. The 1970s terrorist attacks by the PLO, the Provisional Irish Republican Army, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Japanese Red Army, the Unabomber, Aum Shinrikyo, Timothy McVeigh, the World Trade Center attacks, the assault on a school in Russia, and suicide bombers have all made the term terrorism an all-too-common part of our vocabulary.This edition of Political Terrorism was originally published in the 1980s, well before some of the horrific events noted above. This monumental collection of definitions, conceptual frameworks, paradigmatic formulations, and bibliographic sources is being reissued in paperback now as a resource for the expanding community of researchers on the subject of terrorism. This is a carefully constructed guide to one of the most urgent issues of the world today.When the first edition was originally published, Choice noted, This extremely useful reference tool should be part of any serious social science collection. Chronicles of Culture called it a tremendously comprehensive book about a subject that any who have anything to lose--from property to liberty, life to limbs--should be forewarned against.

Terror and the Postcolonial

Elleke Boehmer,Stephen Morton

Author : Elleke Boehmer,Stephen Morton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119056195

Get Book

Terror and the Postcolonial by Elleke Boehmer,Stephen Morton Pdf

Terror and the Postcolonial is a major comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial theory, literature, and culture. A ground-breaking study addressing and theorizing the relationship between postcolonial studies, colonial history, and terrorism through a series of contemporary and historical case studies from various postcolonial contexts Critically analyzes the figuration of terrorism in a variety of postcolonial literary texts from South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East Raises the subject of terror as both an expression of globalization and a postcolonial product Features key essays by well-known theorists, such as Robert J. C. Young, Derek Gregory, and Achille Mbembe, and Vron Ware

Terrorism And Literature

Terrorism and Literature by Peter C. Herman Pdf

Literature and Terrorism by Anonim Pdf

Terrorism and Literature by Peter C. Herman Pdf

Terrorism in Literature by Bootheina Majoul Pdf

Written in Blood by Lynn Ellen Patyk Pdf

Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism by Institute of Medicine,Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health,Committee on Responding to the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism Pdf

Unspeakable by Peter C. Herman Pdf

The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism in Public Discourse, Literature, and Film by Michael C. Frank Pdf

America's Culture of Terrorism by Jeffory A. Clymer Pdf

Literature after 9/11 by Ann Keniston,Jeanne Follansbee Quinn Pdf

The Psychology of Counter-Terrorism by Andrew Silke Pdf

Terrorism and Modern Literature by Alex Houen Pdf

Literature, Migration and the 'War on Terror' by Fiona Tolan,Stephen Morton,Anastasia Valassopoulos,Robert Spencer Pdf

Political Terrorism by A.J. Jongman Pdf

Terror and the Postcolonial by Elleke Boehmer,Stephen Morton Pdf

Recent Posts